Feature: Technology

 
Conversation with John Burn-Murdoch

Conversation with John Burn-Murdoch

As Covid-19 spread across the globe, it became clear that data visualisation would become ‘the language of the pandemic’.
 
Anette Lenz: Poetic rhetoric in the public realm

Anette Lenz: Poetic rhetoric in the public realm

Over nearly three decades, Anette Lenz has made work that transcends trends and technology. Profile by Jan Middendorp
 
Ethics in the age of data capitalism

Ethics in the age of data capitalism

Has user-centred design dragged us to the brink of catastrophe? And if so, do we need a First Things First for the digital world?
 
To have and to hold

To have and to hold

The challenges of digital publishing have galvanised a new spirit in book design and production. Is it just the decadent flourish of a disappearing format?
 
Puffins on the plate

Puffins on the plate

How the Russian revolution – plus new technology – led to a colourful and radical change in children’s book publishing.
 
Free for all

Free for all

In designing the Ubuntu type family, Dalton Maag had to produce faces for print and screen in thirteen styles and numerous non-Latin languages – all under scrutiny from an online audience of millions. By John Ridpath
 
Port: Prêt à porter

Port: Prêt à porter

Jeremy Leslie, Port’s iPad app designer, explains his methods
 
Up close and tight

Up close and tight

The legendary Herb Lubalin brought humour, sensuality and a contemporary flourish to complex typographic arrangements.
 

Blam: the essence is speed

William Owen looks at design in the age of digital reproduction
 

Techno cubists

Champions of the layered look, Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell wed theory and technological wizardry